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Social Innovation: Opportunities & Imperatives
The document discusses social innovation and its impact on improving lives through various initiatives, such as low-cost loans, child advocacy, and health innovations. It emphasizes the importance of practical goals and multidisciplinary approaches in education and design to address concerns like climate change and poverty. The document also encourages active participation in social entrepreneurship through donations, partnerships, and utilizing resources like human-centered design toolkits.
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Social Innovation: Opportunities & Imperatives
- 1. Social innovation: theopportunity & imperatives© Raaya Design, 2010
- 2. innovations which havea social purpose =social innovation
- 3. Loans for thepoorest people Nobel prize winner Grameen Bank improves lives of millions - $ 92 M in rev and 25000 employee worldwide
- 4. Child rights andyouCampaigns advocating against child abuse and labor, providing education and support to millions of children
- 5. Lighting one homeat a timeWhile saving the planet! Solar powered lamps that enable transition from kerosene to solar lamps
- 6. Fighting the malariademonsSaving lives through developing low cost mosquito nets and numerous life impacting innovations
- 7. Let children bechildren The best gift we can give to children is the ability to play – we’ll be surprised to learn how many of them cannot.
- 8. Education institutes leadthe way…Universities such as Stanford are leading the way in enabling cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary social innovation
- 9. Opportunities galoreFrom buyone donate one to technology innovation to product design to arts and crafts and food distribution
- 10. The rise ofthe emerging marketsEmerging markets have created opportunities for products, services and communication design
- 11. Choose your goalChoosea practical, viable goal; assign objectives advocate your cause and align your efforts to them
- 12. The climate emergencyOpportunitiesto impact through design, architecture, energy innovation and business models.
- 13. Get involvedDonations, volunteer,find a job, partnerships, profits with a purpose or social entrepreneur.
- 14. Ask for supportand guidanceMany non-profits provide Fellowship programs, grants and training support for social-entrepreneurs.
- 15. $ 50 Mfund announced for social innovationTransforming troubled schools, training workers for green jobs or helping low-income families access health care
- 16. Human Centered DesignTool kit, by IdeoA great tool for a structured guide in researching and designing social projects.
- 17. Get inspired …by TEDUnique multi-disciplinary repository of great thinking and achievements from around the globe
- 18. Look at theBIG pictureA innovation for a local community today can become a global solution tomorrow.
- 19. Do your HOMEWORK!Getin the field and experience the problems that you are trying to solve
- 20. Take a step-by-stepapproachConceptualize, Prototype, Test and Re-iterate… every step is critical